TONY CURZON PRICE

Tony Curzon Price is the Economic Advisor to the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He worked closely on the elaboration of the UK's Industrial Strategy White Paper, on government responses to GAFA, on climate change policy and on competition and consumer policy. He has previously worked for the Financial Conduct Authority and the Competition and Markets Authority. He founded Arithmatica, a silicon design company, and spent 5 years building the company in the Bay Area; he transformed openDemocracy into a not-for-profit editors’ cooperative for comment, analysis and investigation. He wrote his PhD on game theory and market design with Ken Binmore at UCL.

The world must establish a genuine dialogue between the most advanced technologies and artificial reasoning capabilities on the one hand, and the normative and critical capabilities of the social sciences on the other. We have reached the point where their mutual inspiration and cross-fertilization is a must.